Affiliate Marketing using Dating Websites and Torrents
Instead of taking the high road and creating a service that genuinely helps people decide on the right dating site and getting paid for it, this marketing troll is spamming filesharing networks with porn ads. Nice. And you wonder why people still get hives thinking about online dating. I had a hard time dealing with what […]
Instead of taking the high road and creating a service that genuinely helps people decide on the right dating site and getting paid for it, this marketing troll is spamming filesharing networks with porn ads. Nice. And you wonder why people still get hives thinking about online dating.
I had a hard time dealing with what I learned about the affiliate marketing industry "best practices" last week. Then to find this article, argh. Maybe it is time for two internets, I'd pay $40 a month to be on the top tier ad-free internet, the rest can be surfed for free, scammers, spammers and trolls throughout.
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Beer Goggles are For Realz
I'm sitting here jailbreaking my iPhone while I install some cool new applications that Steve Jobs isn't ready to officially approve, which means they are better than what's in the iPhone, or have created an additional revenue stream that Apple has no control over, or something as simple as cut-and-paste, which Apple evidently decided wasn't […]
I'm sitting here jailbreaking my iPhone while I install some cool new applications that Steve Jobs isn't ready to officially approve, which means they are better than what's in the iPhone, or have created an additional revenue stream that Apple has no control over, or something as simple as cut-and-paste, which Apple evidently decided wasn't important enough to include as a feature.
A highly placed official in a large dating site sent me the following, People Really Do Look Better When You Drink. For everyone trying to cure AIDS or cancer, someone else is earning credits for studying horny bar behavior. I guess we should be grateful for the opportunity to learn about human nature.
The research study is right, I'm looking at some profiles on dating sites and the woman look much better after a few drinks.
A close friend got dumped by his fiance, second time she's performed that particular move, ouch. He's on Match and sometimes we compare the women in our hotlist and who contact us. He is a good sport when I go into research mode.
He's nowhere near as good looking as I am (ha), makes a lot more money and is gung-ho about having kids, so we see decidedly different search results.
When I went to the Match.com search page tonight, I see it's changed. Looks like they moved the search fields from the sidebar to the bottom of the screen. Knowing Match, there is a perfectly good reason for doing this. Or is there?
Match has all the answers but I'm not sure they know which questions to ask anymore. What's it like to grow to be arguably number one then hit the wall? More revenue per member, sure thats great for shareholder value but it sucks for the rest of us members.
PlentyOffish and SinglesNet are going to crush Match in terms of traffic over time, but boy is that traffic getting expensive.
Look at the difference between unique visitors and visits per month. There are almost three times as many visits to Singlesnet as to PlentyOfFish, and many of them are paying members. See the growth of unique members on PoF? Nice and steady, avoiding the stutter steps and fluctuations that most sites exhibit over time.
Don't let Guy Kawasaki and the affiliate marketing people like Shoemoney distract you, Markus at PoF pays a hell of a lot of money to get 30+ million visitors a month. Once you know what the competition pays so it's pretty easy to figure out the rest of the equation.
Markus didn't need to be at the Affiliate Summit in Boston this week. The people that make a lot of money affiliate marketing and advertising don't go to the shows and they don't talk.
OkCupid has grown buy a hundred thousand visitors and total visits went from 1.7 million to 4.5 million in the last year. People really like taking tests!
Funny thing about the online dating industry, it's all about online marketing, nothing more, nothing less. Anyone else tells you different they are too passionate about the market or ignorant. Passion for online dating doesn't make money or success, in fact it hurts you, just like it can in real life. Huge marketing budgets, absolute mastery of metrics and analytics and top-notch marketing leadership are required for success.
Time to go shoot some videos on my iPhone.
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Strong women, stronger men
Hey guys, In the last 20 years, society has changed a lot. Women are starting to be more aggressive in business, and in romance, and I for one think that's a very good thing. However, some guys are either frightened…
Source: www.johnalanis.com
Monster.com Losing Money on Dating
From SeekingAlpha: Non-core online dating and video sharing ($3.1 million deficit on revenue of $2.3 million in 2Q08) has been reclassified as a discontinued operation. Remember that $30 million purchase of Tickle and LoveHappens?
From SeekingAlpha:
Non-core online dating and video sharing ($3.1 million deficit on revenue of $2.3 million in 2Q08) has been reclassified as a discontinued operation.
Remember that $30 million purchase of Tickle and LoveHappens?
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Affiliate Marketing using Dating Websites and Torrents
Instead of taking the high road and creating a service that genuinely helps people decide on the right dating site and getting paid for it, this marketing troll is spamming filesharing networks with porn ads. Nice. And you wonder why people still get hives thinking about online dating. I had a hard time dealing with what […]
Instead of taking the high road and creating a service that genuinely helps people decide on the right dating site and getting paid for it, this marketing troll is spamming filesharing networks with porn ads. Nice. And you wonder why people still get hives thinking about online dating.
I had a hard time dealing with what I learned about the affiliate marketing industry "best practices" last week. Then to find this article, argh. Maybe it is time for two internets, I'd pay $40 a month to be on the top tier ad-free internet, the rest can be surfed for free, scammers, spammers and trolls throughout.
Source: feeds.feedburner.com
Beer Goggles are For Realz
I'm sitting here jailbreaking my iPhone while I install some cool new applications that Steve Jobs isn't ready to officially approve, which means they are better than what's in the iPhone, or have created an additional revenue stream that Apple has no control over, or something as simple as cut-and-paste, which Apple evidently decided wasn't […]
I'm sitting here jailbreaking my iPhone while I install some cool new applications that Steve Jobs isn't ready to officially approve, which means they are better than what's in the iPhone, or have created an additional revenue stream that Apple has no control over, or something as simple as cut-and-paste, which Apple evidently decided wasn't important enough to include as a feature.
A highly placed official in a large dating site sent me the following, People Really Do Look Better When You Drink. For everyone trying to cure AIDS or cancer, someone else is earning credits for studying horny bar behavior. I guess we should be grateful for the opportunity to learn about human nature.
The research study is right, I'm looking at some profiles on dating sites and the woman look much better after a few drinks.
A close friend got dumped by his fiance, second time she's performed that particular move, ouch. He's on Match and sometimes we compare the women in our hotlist and who contact us. He is a good sport when I go into research mode.
He's nowhere near as good looking as I am (ha), makes a lot more money and is gung-ho about having kids, so we see decidedly different search results.
When I went to the Match.com search page tonight, I see it's changed. Looks like they moved the search fields from the sidebar to the bottom of the screen. Knowing Match, there is a perfectly good reason for doing this. Or is there?
Match has all the answers but I'm not sure they know which questions to ask anymore. What's it like to grow to be arguably number one then hit the wall? More revenue per member, sure thats great for shareholder value but it sucks for the rest of us members.
PlentyOffish and SinglesNet are going to crush Match in terms of traffic over time, but boy is that traffic getting expensive.
Look at the difference between unique visitors and visits per month. There are almost three times as many visits to Singlesnet as to PlentyOfFish, and many of them are paying members. See the growth of unique members on PoF? Nice and steady, avoiding the stutter steps and fluctuations that most sites exhibit over time.
Don't let Guy Kawasaki and the affiliate marketing people like Shoemoney distract you, Markus at PoF pays a hell of a lot of money to get 30+ million visitors a month. Once you know what the competition pays so it's pretty easy to figure out the rest of the equation.
Markus didn't need to be at the Affiliate Summit in Boston this week. The people that make a lot of money affiliate marketing and advertising don't go to the shows and they don't talk.
OkCupid has grown buy a hundred thousand visitors and total visits went from 1.7 million to 4.5 million in the last year. People really like taking tests!
Funny thing about the online dating industry, it's all about online marketing, nothing more, nothing less. Anyone else tells you different they are too passionate about the market or ignorant. Passion for online dating doesn't make money or success, in fact it hurts you, just like it can in real life. Huge marketing budgets, absolute mastery of metrics and analytics and top-notch marketing leadership are required for success.
Time to go shoot some videos on my iPhone.
Source: feeds.feedburner.com
Strong women, stronger men
Hey guys, In the last 20 years, society has changed a lot. Women are starting to be more aggressive in business, and in romance, and I for one think that's a very good thing. However, some guys are either frightened…
Source: www.johnalanis.com
Monster.com Losing Money on Dating
From SeekingAlpha: Non-core online dating and video sharing ($3.1 million deficit on revenue of $2.3 million in 2Q08) has been reclassified as a discontinued operation. Remember that $30 million purchase of Tickle and LoveHappens?
From SeekingAlpha:
Non-core online dating and video sharing ($3.1 million deficit on revenue of $2.3 million in 2Q08) has been reclassified as a discontinued operation.
Remember that $30 million purchase of Tickle and LoveHappens?
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OPW — Aug 15 — We love comments. Here’s the courtesy rules for commenting. Online Personals Watch is for those in the internet dating business community. As a courtesy to interviewees, derogatory comments are deleted from interview threads. Feel free to posted elsewhere on the site, but anonymous comments and comments clearly hawking products/services may also be deleted, I should note. If your comment adds to the professional and courteous discussion of the business of internet dating, it adds something to the community and will not be deleted. Please keep your comments professional and courteous, with constructive criticism. Thanks for your consideration. Does this sound fair? - Mark Brooks
